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The f-bomb is something that didn't add anything to the show.
I think the point of sending discovery is that it is the only ship that can do it, plus it probably be bad if the person overlooking the project is captured and give away all your secrets,

The difference between Orville and Discovery is that Orville has the upbeat feel of the original Star Trek and some of the story lines are from the Star Trek but can't use the copyrighted stuff from Star Trek. Discovery can use the copyrighted stuff but is off script. I wish whoever wrote this new trek kind of did something like Orville that is just make a whole new franchise out of it. There could be an argument that it took a lot of work to get the era of Kirk but maybe they should of pushed back the dates of discovery to about half way between Enterprise and TOS. There are rumors that there the alternate Star Trek universe will show up I wonder how that will play out.

The experiment has been a success, because news has just dropped that CBS is renewing Star Trek: Discovery. The show, which was used as a tentpole to launch CBS' All Access streaming service, has been enough of a success to justify a second season of episodes. ...

That was refreshing. Hearing normal talk instead of <beep>. I'm not a baby, my kids aren't babies. They can deal with words.

I do like the series, so far. I like the darkness. I wasn't waiting for another repeat of more of the same of more of the past. Not perfect though. I'm aware Star Trek has some history in trying to combat bigotry, and it feels like they wanted to do a whole lot more of it in this series. A great initiative, bigotry lowers humanity, but it seems so ... forced. It doesn't come naturally from the story. It's like some producer said: "oh wait, put in a bit more LGBT equality, I don't care how, just do it!", after everything was already recorded and edited.

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And we find out why the captain is a borderline psycho. James Frain is a great Sarek too.

As for the F-bomb, well they got an S-word out of Data, so....

Anyhoo. I'm enjoying this, for what it is. Keep having to remind myself that, compared to the first seasons of TNG and DS9, this is gold.

TNG point taken. DS9, only in the unlikely event Discovery pulls off something equivalent to Duet. This is highly unlikely given that Duet is the greatest thing to have ever carried the name Star Trek.

Nothing I've seen of "STD" (LOL), has led me to believe I made a poor choice in not watching it. Not even the white male privileged and Sinophobic comparison review of it to The Orville I watched the other day on YouTube : puke :

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hatewatching star trek: discovery

I really wanted to like the new star trek series.... but imho it is just awful.
Not awful because it doesn't mesh with other series/tv but just awful.
AWFUL SCRIPT
AWFUL CHARACTERS
DUMB IDEAS
BAD ACTORS... oher than Michael and the Captain.

they really jumped the shark when they brought out the giant tardigrade feeding on interstellar mycelium.. and somehow powering the ship. What's wrong with inventing dilithium crystals and leaving it at that?

pu-leeeez... palm to forehead.

is it only me?

it feels like it was written for 10yr olds.... but then why the gratuitous f-bombs??

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they really jumped the shark when they brought out the giant tardigrade feeding on interstellar mycelium.. and somehow powering the ship. What's wrong with inventing dilithium crystals and leaving it at that?

The more I watch, the more I wonder why they didn't just set it after TNG, rather than before TOS. They're not insisting on keeping the technology appropriate, they're not insisting on staying within canon (they've even screwed up the Mirror Universe canon, for pete's sake), and the only established characters they've used (Sarek, Harry Mudd) have been different enough that nobody would've thought twice if they'd just given them original names.

It's not a bad show, as such, but they really should've just put it in Trek's future instead of its past.